Mexican army instructed to provide information on criminal suspects killed

Mexico's transparency agency said it had instructed the Defense Secretariat to research and provide information on the number of criminal suspects killed by army soldiers over two periods since 2000.

In a statement Wednesday, the National Institute for Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data, or INAI, said it had requested information from the periods 2000 to 2006 and September 2012 to November 2015.